My name is Adam and I am a Worship Arts Pastor in the Kansas City metro area. I don't claim to be an expert at anything I just know that I find value in other peoples experiences and so I want to put mine out there in hopes maybe someone might benefit from them. Enter your e-mail below or click the orange button up top to subscribe to my blog!
This blog is about a journey we are all on. It’s my experiences, ideas, passions, victories and failures as a Worship Pastor, Husband, Christian and artist. My hope is to encourage and motivate those on the same journey and hopefully have some fun along the way.
I am cursed with being a “people pleaser”. I have been ever since I can remember. I want people to like me and think highly of me. I am motivated by compliments and the approval of my peers. The converse is also true. As quickly as a compliment can brighten my outlook, a critique pulls me down fast. It lingers in my mind far longer than it should. I waste energy and time analyzing it.
When I was in high school I made the decision that I wanted to pursue full time vocational ministry, specifically in the area of worship arts. I was given advice on which direction to take to get there by pastors, worship pastors and youth pastors and thought I had it all planned out. I decided that after high school I would go to North Central University and major in business administration and minor in Worship leadership. In the 4 years I expected to be there I imagined I would meet my future wife and by the time I graduated be ready to get married and start my life in ministry. Well…. That’s not exactly how it went.
Just five short weeks ago Natalie and I were excited to announce to our friends, family, and church family that we were going to have a baby. We were ecstatic to say the least! We had always been unsure if Natalie could get pregnant because she had cancer as a child. The doctors have always been unsure about the possibility of Natalie’s body carrying a child. The fact that she got pregnant was a miracle and proof of God’s healing of her body. We have dreamed about one day being parents and starting a family. Unfortunately, this last week that dream was temporarily broken. To process, we wanted to share our story. I will warn that this is a little long and somewhat graphic...
